Our criticism has never opened its arms wide enough to embrace all imaginative literature as poetry, and in the English sense nothing in the world's drama is denser or more unqualified prose than The Enemy of the People, without a tinge of romance or rhetoric, as "unideal" as a blue-book.

Our criticism has never opened its arms wide enough to embrace all imaginative literature as poetry, and in the English sense nothing in the world's drama is denser or more unqualified prose than _The Enemy of the People_, without a tinge of romance or rhetoric, as "unideal" as a blue-book.

But what I would like to see more of from the right is, a recognition that there is indeed a *balance* here, which means one cannot automatically dismiss proposals as “too socialist” or “too much regulation” etc. — one must argue proposals based on their specific merits and flaws, in the context of the unideal, complicated society in which we live.

Mike: But what I would like to see more of from the right is, a recognition that there is indeed a *balance* here, which means one cannot automatically dismiss proposals as “too socialist” or “too much regulation” etc. — one must argue proposals based on their specific merits and flaws, in the context of the unideal, complicated society in which welive.

The point of the Zoo scene is to show that for wild animals, the Zoo is not only the most unideal place for them to spend their lives, but it also should not be the ONLY PLACE LEFT in the world where these animals can survive.